Delta Nu Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

We are proud to partner with the Delta Nu Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Society to highlight the impact of literature and art that emerged from the Harlem Renaissance.

Below are books recommended by Delta Nu Omega members. Learn more about this Rochester-based graduate chapter, their service programs, and events at akadno.org.


Special Event this Summer!

Join us for our first co-hosted event, Jump at the Sun: Community Read and Conversation, a virtual discussion of Zora Neale Hurston's auto-biography, Dust Tracks on a Road, led by Storyteller in Residence Almeta Whitis. Register here to join our admission-free conversation on August 21. 


Additional Resources:

  • For Zora Neale Hurston's full body of work, click here.
  • For further reading from the Harlem Renaissance, click here.

 

Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance By William L. Andrews (Editor) Cover Image
By William L. Andrews (Editor)
$109.99
ISBN: 9780195081961
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - May 12th, 1994

The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance (African American Experience: From Slavery to the Presidency) By Sabina G. Arora (Editor) Cover Image
By Sabina G. Arora (Editor)
$35.47
ISBN: 9781680480450
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Published: Rosen Education Service - August 1st, 2015

Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance By Houston A. Baker, Jr. Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780226035253
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Published: University of Chicago Press - January 15th, 1989

Harlem Renaissance Artists and Writers (Inspiring Collective Biographies) By Wendy Hart Beckman Cover Image
$13.88
ISBN: 9781464402692
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Published: Enslow Publishing - July 16th, 2013

Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White By Emily Bernard Cover Image
$37.00
ISBN: 9780300192520
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Published: Yale University Press - May 31st, 2013

Claude McKay, Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance: A Biography By Wayne F. Cooper Cover Image
$25.95
ISBN: 9780807120743
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Published: LSU Press - February 1st, 1996

Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled By Thadious M. Davis Cover Image
$21.95
ISBN: 9780807120705
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Published: LSU Press - May 1st, 1996

Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination By James De Jongh Cover Image
$47.99
ISBN: 9780521123303
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Published: Cambridge University Press - November 19th, 2009

The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Exploration of Literature (Historical Explorations of Literature) By Lynn Domina Cover Image
$70.00
ISBN: 9781610696494
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Published: ABC-Clio, LLC - November 25th, 2014

Jean Toomer & Harlem Renaissance By Geneviève Fabre (Editor), Michel Feith (Editor) Cover Image
By Geneviève Fabre (Editor), Michel Feith (Editor)
$41.95
ISBN: 9780813528465
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Published: Rutgers University Press - December 1st, 2000

Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance By Genevieve Fabre (Editor), Michel Feith (Editor) Cover Image
By Genevieve Fabre (Editor), Michel Feith (Editor)
$26.00
ISBN: 9780253214256
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Published: Indiana University Press (Ips) - September 1st, 2001

Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 (African American Life) By James V. Hatch (Editor), Leo Hamalian (Editor) Cover Image
By James V. Hatch (Editor), Leo Hamalian (Editor)
$31.99
ISBN: 9780814325803
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Published: Wayne State University Press - October 1st, 1996

Pages from the Harlem Renaissance: A Chronicle of Performance (Studies in African and Afro-American Culture #6) By James L. Hill (Editor), Anthony Hill Cover Image
$57.90
ISBN: 9780820428642
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Published: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi - November 23rd, 2006

Harlem Renaissance By Nathan Irvin Huggins, Arnold Rampersad (Foreword by) Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9780195063363
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - May 2nd, 2007

Voices from the Harlem Renaissance By Nathan Irvin Huggins (Editor) Cover Image
By Nathan Irvin Huggins (Editor)
$14.99
ISBN: 9780195093605
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - January 26th, 1995

The Big Sea: An Autobiography By Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad (Introduction by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780809015498
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Published: Hill and Wang - August 1st, 1993

Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten By Emily Bernard (Editor), Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780375727078
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Published: Vintage - February 5th, 2002

Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir By Zora Neale Hurston Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9780060854089
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Published: Amistad - January 3rd, 2006

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance (Cambridge Companions to Literature) By George Hutchinson (Editor) Cover Image
By George Hutchinson (Editor)
$31.99
ISBN: 9780521673686
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Published: Cambridge University Press - June 14th, 2007

In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line By George Hutchinson Cover Image
$47.00
ISBN: 9780674021808
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Published: Belknap Press - May 30th, 2006

This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance By Verner D. Mitchell (Editor), Cheryl A. Wall (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Verner D. Mitchell (Editor), Cheryl A. Wall (Foreword by)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781558495722
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Published: University of Massachusetts Press - September 6th, 2006

Black Manhattan By James Weldon Johnson, Zadie Smith (Foreword by) Cover Image
By James Weldon Johnson, Zadie Smith (Foreword by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781632461155
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Published: Ig Publishing - April 6th, 2021

Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance By Amy Helene Kirschke (Editor) Cover Image
By Amy Helene Kirschke (Editor)
$35.00
ISBN: 9781496807960
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Published: University Press of Mississippi - March 1st, 2016

When Harlem Was in Vogue By David Levering Lewis Cover Image
$24.00
ISBN: 9780140263343
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Published: Penguin Books - June 1st, 1997

The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (Portable Library) By David Levering Lewis (Editor) Cover Image
By David Levering Lewis (Editor)
$24.00
ISBN: 9780140170368
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Published: Penguin Classics - June 1st, 1995

The New Negro By Alain Locke Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780684838311
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Published: Touchstone - March 1st, 1999

This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance By Verner D. Mitchell (Editor), Cheryl A. Wall (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Verner D. Mitchell (Editor), Cheryl A. Wall (Foreword by)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781558495722
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Published: University of Massachusetts Press - September 6th, 2006

And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countée Cullen By Charles Molesworth Cover Image
$32.00
ISBN: 9780226533643
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Published: University of Chicago Press - October 1st, 2012

The Entrance Place of Wonders: Poems of the Harlem Renaissance By Daphne Muse, Charlotte Riley-Webb (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Daphne Muse, Charlotte Riley-Webb (Illustrator)
$16.95
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ISBN: 9780810959972
Published: Harry N. Abrams - November 1st, 2005

Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent By Richard Bruce Nugent Cover Image
$28.95
ISBN: 9780822329138
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Published: Duke University Press - May 23rd, 2002

Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 By Jeffrey B. Perry Cover Image
$36.00
ISBN: 9780231139113
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Published: Columbia University Press - November 17th, 2010

Critical Essays on James Weldon Johnson: James Weldon Johnson (Twayne's Critical Essays on American Literature) By Kenneth Price (Editor), Lawrence J. Oliver (Editor) Cover Image
By Kenneth Price (Editor), Lawrence J. Oliver (Editor)
$91.00
ISBN: 9780783800332
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Published: Twayne Publishers - November 21st, 1997

The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s By Charles Scruggs Cover Image
$32.00
ISBN: 9781421431383
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press - December 1st, 2019

Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance By Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Cover Image
$40.95
ISBN: 9780813539775
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Published: Rutgers University Press - January 29th, 2007

The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers, 1923-1933 By Amritjit Singh Cover Image
$35.95
ISBN: 9780271012087
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Published: Penn State University Press - August 15th, 1976

Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art (Library of African American Biography) By Lindsey R. Swindall Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781442207943
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Published: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - September 15th, 2015

The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from The Messenger Magazine By Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Editor), Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, Dorothy West Cover Image
$23.00
ISBN: 9780375755392
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Published: Modern Library - February 8th, 2000

Women of the Harlem Renaissance (Women of Letters) By Cheryl A. Wall Cover Image
$24.00
ISBN: 9780253209801
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Published: Indiana University Press (Ips) - September 1st, 1995

The Ideologies of African American Literature: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Nationalist Revolt By Robert E. Washington Cover Image
$154.00
ISBN: 9780742509498
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Published: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - October 3rd, 2001

Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance [With CD] By Cary D. Wintz (Editor) Cover Image
By Cary D. Wintz (Editor)
$29.95
ISBN: 9781402204364
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Published: Sourcebooks Mediafusion - November 1st, 2006

Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (LOA #217): Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry (Library of America Harlem Renaissance Novels Collection #1) By Rafia Zafar (Editor) Cover Image
By Rafia Zafar (Editor)
$35.00
ISBN: 9781598530995
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Published: Library of America - September 1st, 2011

Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s (LOA #218): Not Without Laughter / Black No More / The Conjure-Man Dies / Black Thunder (Library of America Harlem Renaissance Novels Collection #2) By Rafia Zafar (Editor) Cover Image
By Rafia Zafar (Editor)
$35.00
ISBN: 9781598531015
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Published: Library of America - September 1st, 2011